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The Clavier-Übung III, sometimes referred to as the German Organ Mass, is a collection of compositions for organ by Johann Sebastian Bach, started in 1735–36 and published in 1739. It is considered Bach's most significant and extensive work for organ, containing some of his most musically complex and technically demanding compositions for ...
Despite the fact that the organ is also a keyboard instrument, and that in Bach's time the distinction wasn't always made whether a keyboard composition was for organ or another keyboard instrument, Wolfgang Schmieder ranged organ compositions in a separate section of the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (Nos. 525-771).
chorale setting "Vater unser im Himmelreich" from Clavier-Übung III: Organ 3: 217: IV/4: 58 after Z 2561: 00798: 683 7. 1739 chorale setting "Vater unser im Himmelreich" from Clavier-Übung III: Org/man. 3: 223: IV/4: 66 after Z 2561; → BWV 683a: 00799: 684 7. 1739 chorale setting "Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam" from Clavier-Übung III ...
The tonalities of the six Partitas (B ♭ major, C minor, A minor, D major, G major, E minor) may seem to be random, but in fact they form a sequence of intervals going up and then down by increasing amounts: a second up (B ♭ to C), a third down (C to A), a fourth up (A to D), a fifth down (D to G), and finally a sixth up (G to E). [5]
Compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach printed during his lifetime (1685–1750) include works for keyboard instruments, such as his Clavier-Übung volumes for harpsichord and for organ, and to a lesser extent ensemble music, such as the trio sonata of The Musical Offering, and vocal music, such as a cantata published early in his career.
Clavier-Übung II, for harpsichord with two manuals, contains the Italian Concerto, BWV 971 and the Overture in the French style, BWV 831, and was published in 1735; Clavier-Übung III, for organ, contains the Prelude and Fugue in E flat major, BWV 552, 21 chorale preludes, BWV 669–689, and the Four Duets, BWV 802–805, and was published in 1739
Clavier-Übung, in more modern spelling Klavierübung, is German for "keyboard exercise". In the late 17th and early 18th centuries this was a common title for keyboard music collections: first adopted by Johann Kuhnau in 1689, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] the term later became mostly associated with Johann Sebastian Bach 's four Clavier-Übung publications .
The surviving manuscript, largely written by Bach's nephew Johann Heinrich Bach, has been dated to 1725; the harpsichord parts for these two movements were written by Bach himself. BWV 830 is the last suite in Bach's Clavier-Übung I, the first music published by Bach within his lifetime. The partitas were initially published separately ...